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EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy and Golden Globe winner Claire Foy (The Crown, All of Us Strangers) and Oscar nominee Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges) are set to star in H Is For Hawk for Plan B (12 Years a Slave, Moonlight) and Film4 (Poor Things, The Zone Of Interest).

The San Sebastian Film Festival will fete Javier Bardem with its prestigious Donostia Award at its 71st edition, running 22 — 30 September.

Broadway’s Room stars Adrienne Warren and Ephraim Sykes, along with choreographer Galen Hooks, are speaking out on the the bizarre, last-minute “indefinite postponement” of the much anticipated spring production.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Room,” a stage version of the Oscar-winning movie, will no longer open on Broadway due to insufficient financing and the withdrawal of a lead producer. The production was scheduled to begin performances on April 3 at the James Earl Jones Theatre, but it has been postponed indefinitely. “Room,” which was in rehearsal, has shut down as of Thursday, March 16. “In the midst of our rehearsals we were informed by one of our lead producers that due to personal reasons, they did not intend to fulfill their obligations to the production,” said producer Hunter Arnold. “Since being notified, the rest of the producing team has exhausted all possible avenues to keep the show on track, but the narrow timeline and economic shortfall created by this series of events has proven to be insurmountable.”

Complete casting for the US premiere of Room on Broadway has been announced.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Ephraim Sykes, a Tony nominee for the Temptations musical “Ain’t Too Proud,” is returning to Broadway in “Room,” a stage version of the Oscar-winning movie. The play and the 2015 film, starring Brie Larson, were based on Emma Donoghue’s 2010 best-selling novel. “Room” tells the story of Ma, who was kidnapped as a teenager and held in captivity for seven years. She’s trapped with her five-year-old son Jack, who was born in confinement and has no concept of the outside world. But the time has come to escape imprisonment and face their biggest challenge to date: life outside Room. As previously announced, “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” star Adrienne Warren is leading the cast as Ma. Sykes, whose stage and screen credits include “Hamilton” and “Hairspray Live,” is playing SuperJack.

EXCLUSIVE: When the announcement was made in January that Emma Donoghue had developed a play (with music) of her bestselling novel Room and the acclaimed film that followed – and that the play was heading to Broadway – plenty of New Yorkers were filled with questions (Londoners and Canadians had already seen the show).

Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren will star in the Broadway American premiere of Room, written and adapted for the stage by Emma Donoghue, based on her 2010 best-selling novel which she also adapted into the award-winning 2015 film.

EXCLUSIVE: After months of rumors and a three month exclusive negotiating period, Anonymous Content is now near a deal to acquire the prolific production company Automatik. There’s a twist here: Deadline reported that Anonymous was in talks for Grandview/Automatik. But The Dish hears that Grandview won’t be part of the transaction and will remain a freestanding rep company.

The Wonder director Sebastián Lelio and star Florence Pugh joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event to talk about their Netflix film and the power and fanaticism of faith. 

Florence Pugh must contend with faith and science in Netflix’s new film “The Wonder”.

Marking another major merger in the representation world, sources tell Deadline that Anonymous Content is in exclusive negotiations to acquire management And production firm Grandview/Automatik. The two companies have had discussions about a potential merger going all the way back to the spring with nothing serious ever coming of it but over the past couple weeks talks have ramped up and sources close to the situation say they are now exclusive.

The Wonder is Gothic without the architecture. Set in rural central Ireland in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-1800s, director Sebastian Lelio’s adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel methodically moves the chess pieces around in telling the tale of an 11-year-old girl who has locals mystified as to what God is intending by letting her survive for four months without eating. Atmospheric and intriguing up to a point, it nonetheless feels like much ado about a mildly curious situation that’s been milked for rather more than it’s worth.

American actress Glenn Close has been announced as the jury president for the Official Section of the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival, running from September 16-24.

Lady Macbeth, a Victorian thriller set in rural Northumberland which saw her play a young murderess. And for her first Netflix project, the star is going back to her period drama roots as the lead in the adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novel . Ahead of the film’s premiere, a quick recap of everything we know so far about the project.Florence Pugh takes the lead alongside the likes of Tom Burke, Toby Jones, and Ciarán Hinds.The film follows a young girl in 19th-century Ireland who claims to have starved herself for months and survived—and a sceptical nurse and journalist who come to visit her, convinced of their own theories about what’s really happening.

The San Sebastián Film Festival has revealed the line-up for its latest edition, which is due to unfold from September 16-24.

Hollywood star Florence Pugh has given her fans the first glimpse at her brand-new Netflix flick that has just kicked off filming in Ireland.

Filming is underway in Ireland on Netflix’s psychological thriller The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh.

Naman Ramachandran Director Sebastián Lelio has commenced production of Netflix film “The Wonder,” starring Florence Pugh, in Ireland.An adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the Oscar winning “Room,” the film is set in the Irish Midlands circa 1862.

Florence Pugh has become the latest A-lister to touch down in Ireland for filming and fans have made their joy be known on Twitter.

Florence Pugh is set to star in Sebastian Lelio's adaptation of Emma Donoghue'spsychological thrillerThe Wonder, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The novel by the Irish-Canadian writer is set in the Irish Midlands in 1859 as an English nurse, Lib Wright, goes to a tiny village to observe what some see as a medical anomaly and others a miracle, that a girl has survived without food for months.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFlorence Pugh is set to star in “The Wonder,” a big-screen adaptation of the suspenseful novel by Emma Donoghue.Set in the late 1850s, the story follows an English nurse who goes to a tiny village in Ireland to observe what some view as a medical anomaly and others consider a miracle: a young girl who has survived without food for months.

EXCLUSIVE: Even with Black Widow set to make its world premiere this July, Florence Pugh is continuing to add to that ever-growing dance card as she is set to star in the adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder. A Fantastic Woman director Sebastián Lelio will helm the pic with Ed Guiney and Tessa Ross producing. Alice Birch penned the script.

Five years after making its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, the cast of “Room” joins together for a livestream reunion.